[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/libcurl: introduce a 'small' config option
Thomas Petazzoni
thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com
Wed Feb 6 19:32:07 UTC 2019
Hello,
On Wed, 6 Feb 2019 20:13:05 +0100
Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin at gmail.com> wrote:
> +config BR2_PACKAGE_LIBCURL_SMALL
> + bool "disable non-basic features to reduce size"
> + help
> + Compile libcurl only with basic features enabled, to save
> + about 50 KiB in the root filesystem.
> +
> + Following protocols/features are disabled:
> + - LDAP / LDAPS
> + - POP3 / IMAP / SMTP
> + - Telnet
> + - TFTP
> + - RTSP
> + - SMB / CIFS
> + - DICT
> + - Gopher
> + - Proxy support
> + - Cookie support
Discussing with Yann, we think that it would make sense to keep Proxy
support and Cookie support, which are both kind of expected for curl as
a tool for HTTP interaction. All the other features are not HTTP
related, so indeed it makes sense to disable them in this "small"
variant.
Thanks,
Thomas
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